The world kept getting stranger and stranger for Ron Weasley. Harry's letters kept getting more insane with each one. And yet Ron didn't feel Harry was making any of this up. Everything was likely completely true and the outlandish Harry probably was downplaying things. Ron had no idea how that was possible given what Harry was writing out, but knowing his friend he would do that somehow.
What did worry Ron was the fact that if Dumbledore knew how the Dursleys treated Harry then Harry was going to murder the leader of the Light. There was nothing that would stop Harry from doing that on learning of that. Ron remembered that Harry some scary people that wouldn't mind physically destroying Dumbledore.
Ron was torn between understanding that, Dumbledore being well Dumbledore so that couldn't be true, his mum was going flip out when she heard about that, and that was really dark. He really didn't like he didn't have black or white moral feelings in this matter no matter how much he thought about it.
What also disturbed Ron was Harry asking if the reason there were so many Weasley siblings was if they didn't get tested in ways that if they didn't do magic they'd be dead. Harry had pointed out Neville's story he told at the Sorting Feast in their first year as an example of that.
When that story came back to Ron the whole lethal testing of magic thing made a lot of more sense to the youngest Weasley son. And made him wonder what dark families did to squibs if a light family like the Longbottoms did that. Or if the labels of light and dark actually mattered given Ron considered things like that very dark and revolting.
No wonder the squib cousin he had didn't talk to the family much if he went through anything even close to that. And disgusted him if his family had done that. Ron wasn't sure how someone lived without magic but it seemed a lot of people did that just fine. More than had magic if Ron was being honest about that issue.
It also made him disgusted with himself for Harry going back to the Dursleys after he had to be rescued the year before. Why he felt that would be ok he had no idea as Harry was locked in a prison cell and he doubted the Dursleys would be any kinder.
'He saved Ginny and that was the thanks he got,' Ron mused. 'If I ever think he gets everything I lost my bloody mind.'
He remembered back when it was just Slytherins were evil, Dumbledore was good, and such. Ron wasn't sure how Harry flipped everything on its head, but he was sure there might be some snakes around. And again he mused if they found Malfoy as annoying as he did then he'd be able to take having them around.
'I just wonder how crazy things will get when we get back to Hogwarts,' Ron thought to himself once more. He kept pondering that with each letter he got from Harry via Luna. He wasn't sure if there would be a Hogwarts left things got even more insane for his best friend, and something was trying to prove it was more deadly than the things Harry fought this summer. Which said a lot as You-Know-Who was included in the list of things Harry beat.
He also wondered if he'd get to visit that massive underground city the muggles had made in South America. Ron had heard rumors of the goblins having a massive city under Diagon Alley, but he doubted even Bill had visited that place if it existed. Jaburo had been made by human hands and Ron wondered how they did it.
The one thing Ron wondered the most was how long Snape was going to be around if he acted like he always did to Harry. Ron personally doubted he'd last a week before he got dealt with. He rather looked forward to that actually.
He also mused if Ginny was going to have an even bigger crush on Harry now that he had a giant suit of armor to drive around. One that had been enhanced by two men Ron wasn't sure what them meeting his father would cause.
'Other than I'm sure they a flying car would be the least of what they'd make happen,' Ron mused with a laugh. There was no doubt from the letters the pair would want to go into the forbidden forest and try to find that missing car as well.
One thing Ron was sure of was that he definitely would be able to be able to try out that Burning PT which sounded to him like it'd be really fun. Harry also had made it clear they could try to get together at a chess tournament and Ron looked forward to that.
Unless of course an alien invasion or someone with an army of giant robots tried to take over the world that day and Harry had to go help beat them up. Ron kind of was worried at his feeling that for Londo Bell that was a normal day.
Ron then looked at Scabbers and wondered what the Twins had been doing to the rat as he looked really weird now.
Ron then poked whatever was growing from Scabber's missing finger and moved away when it seemed to yell at him.
"What have they been feeding you?" Ron muttered. "And why have you been eating it? You know nothing those two offer can be good."
V-V-V
Harry stared at the mirror he had in his hand. Sirius had sent it to him and he'd just now been able to get to his PO box on Londenion. Now he was in his quarters on the Macbeth and could test to see if the magic would work at so massive distances.
"Sirus Black?" Harry then stated. The image on the mirror changed from his face to that of his godfather.
"So where are you Harry?" Sirius asked as he was curious. Plus Harry could be anywhere on and off the Earth.
"A space colony," Harry grinned. "Any issues seeing or hearing me?"
"None at all," Sirius replied sounding extremely excited. "Never really tested the range of those mirrors. Then again none of us had any idea we'd be outside of the United Kingdom."
"Glad to help and hope this means you won't be anywhere near Scotland when you have that department store open," Harry commented.
"Yeah I really wanted to stay far away from there as they seem to think Dementors will be the best idea to safeguard children," Sirius groaned. "I spent enough time around them to say that's a terrible idea."
"Fudge needs to be seen doing something," Harry sighed. "He honestly said that outloud when Hagrid got taken away to the same hellhole you'd been."
"And I take it Dumbledore did nothing but watch," Sirius groaned. Even if he was displeased with Hagrid taking Harry away from that one night no one deserved to be around the Dementors. Even members of his family he hated deserved a quick death over that.
"That is who Fudge said that to," Harry remarked. "Yes to the person who had been in politics I think before Fudge was born or at least very close to his entire lifetime."
"Merlin," Sirius grumbled. Dumbledore sure didn't seem to do much to help his most loyal supporters did he? It made him wonder if that attitude in a friend was part of what made Mad Eye so paranoid.
"Also Sirius I haven't learned a single thing about how the Wizarding Government works in any classes," Harry stated. "Not even what the police force is called."
Sirius rubbed his forehead. "Aurors...and going what I've learned of your adventures no wonder you don't know about them as a lot of the things that happened to you they should have been called in. Some of them should be on a first name basis with you."
"I am not putting up with business as usual for me at Hogwarts," Harry said clearly annoyed he hadn't learned such a basic fact at the trade school for magic that was Hogwarts.
"And never ever think Lily and James would have wanted you to put up with that," Sirius told him.
Harry smiled hearing that. "I was hoping that, but given my life and the twists it has I won't be shocked if Snape was telling the truth."
Sirius growled at that. "Oh don't take anything he'd say as the complete truth. He'd leave out things like he gave as good as he got with us. Or how he was no saint in behavior back then either."
"No one sounded like a saint then," Harry admitted.
"We weren't to be honest," Sirius said softly.
"Sorry to drag this down," Harry said after moment.
"Don't worry about," Sirius stated waving that off. "You got annoyed being told nothing of value about the Wizarding World and not sure whose look on history is correct. I'm sure me being a responsible adult in any situation is making people turn in their grave."
"Yeah I lacked having any of those," Harry mused. "Still not as bad as Masato got…"
Sirius winced. "That he isn't in some corner crying at all of shite piled on him is amazing."
"And people still aren't sure if Zeorymer isn't booby trapped," Harry noted. "I got to see some footage of Doctor Kihara. Imagine the most ego driven Ravenclaw thinking they were smarter than everyone. And then double their ego."
Sirius made a face at that. He'd met people like that and they were frankly obnoxious and he pranked them hard at Hogwarts. It also became an interesting challenge as they tended to use esoteric spells and wards to try to keep the Marauders out. He was sure learning experiences like helped him learn a lot about magic.
"It is comforting in some ways to find out I am not the only one in that sort of position as Shinji has it nearly as bad," Harry stated. "But disturbing in most of them seem to involve being put into a giant robot."
"An emotionally hurt teen in a giant machine able to cause widespread destruction...I am surprised that hasn't gone horribly wrong," Sirius groused.
"Everyone besides those that do that thinks that," Harry said with a laugh.
"Good," Sirius commented. "Otherwise I'd be even more worried."
"Yeah being a volunteer ensign in Londo Bell is full of insanity," Harry shrugged. "And if I wasn't going back to Hogwarts I'd be taking online classes."
"Keep it as an option," Sirius told him knowing enough that it was another way for his godson to get an education. Frankly that was all that mattered about it to him.
"Yeah pretty sure explaining that would be weirder than my letters," Harry mused.
"Harry your last letter involved keeping a floating island from slamming into the Earth," Sirius noted. "And that one of the allies of Londo Bell is a man able to turn into a literal devil."
"Devilman," Harry noted. "Of course the so called Angels Shinji fights look way uglier than Devilman or his foes."
"You know the strangest people Harry," Sirius muttered as he rubbed his forehead.
"I can trust them," Harry said with a slight smile.
"Even the Getter team?" Sirius asked after a moment of silence.
"Well I trust them to take out their bloodlust on all the things trying to take over or destroy the Earth," Harry replied. "And Musashi isn't bad. He's a really nice guy actually."
"So they tell you anything about your godmother Alice?" Sirius asked and took the look he got as no.
"Alice who?" Harry asked sounding confused.
"Alice Longbottom," Sirius stated. He was starting to think strongly they purposely told his godson completely and utterly nothing. He mentally made a note to just teach Harry everything from the ground up and be pleasantly surprised when Harry knew of that subject at all.
"She won't throw her son out a window to see if he had magic?" Harry asked.
"She'd murder whoever did that to Neville and they'd never find the body," Sirius told his godson as he was sure that Neville had been through that for some reason. "Harry you are worrying me to thinking even I won't be as bad a parental figure. And that Remus would have to try really hard to screw up."
"I am not sure what I had been thinking for the last two years," Harry sighed. "Things seemed to not settle in with the right level of horror and not figuring out the Wizarding World is not Disney fairy tales but the original Brothers Grimm version."
"Harry I'm so sorry that I…" Sirius said before Harry cut him off.
"I don't blame you at all Sirius," Harry interjected. "Or Hagrid. Though Dumbledore is going to have some pointed questions to answer. And I won't take his double talk or half truths or sidestepping the question this time. And it seems he might have told me a lot of shite if he knew what my childhood like and lied to my face on wanting me to have a happy childhood."
"I have been thinking the same thing," Sirius agreed. "I have no idea how things got so bad at Hogwarts, but it seems someone needs to call them to task."
"I'm starting to wonder if they even tell the parents a thing," Harry grumbled. "Mr. and Mrs. Weasley haven't gotten back to me or at least to Luna yet on that."
"That is complicated," Sirius admitted. "Muggleborns don't have their parents told anything by the school."
"Including if a giant snake turns the kids to stone?' Harry inquired.
"...Harry I have this feeling that we might need to have one of your teammates rough up the staff," Sirius sighed. "Because the more I learn about your time at Hogwarts and what the staff did the more angry I get."
"And I'm still surprised you weren't hired to be the DADA teacher this year," Harry admitted.
"Yeah after the last two you had I'm somewhat shocked I wasn't offered the job either," Sirius mused.
"And any idea why..he...won't…" Harry said not sure how to put asking why the DADA teacher for this year didn't visit him or anything.
"Not sure what Remus did or didn't do," Sirius said after a moment. "You're going to have to ask him yourself as me sending an owl or such won't go well given he still thinks I did what Wormtail did."
"And avoid soul sucking monsters around the school," Harry groused. "I can tell they'll really want me as why won't they? Or they go after every student enmass."
Two years of things trying to kill Harry made him extremely wary when something that like Dementors would be around. There was no way this would go well for anyone. It wasn't being a seer if things followed the same pattern every year.
Sirius honestly believed that would be the case. Only that Harry had friends that would go and stomp Dementors flat made him not tell Harry to go to another school. Dementors had bones so they could be pulverized by mecha and if they survived that or not didn't matter.
Sirius also had to admit to himself it said a lot the only reason he let his godson go to Hogwarts as the fact Londo Bell could smash the castle to rubble if something bad happened. And exactly how little he or Harry trusted Dumbledore to do anything.
It was typical for them to hear alarms. Sirius was sure he'd either get a letter or Harry would use the mirror to call him and tell him all about it later.
"Go deal with whatever that is," Sirius told him.
"I'm sure there will be a story in this," Harry smiled as Sirius ended the call.
V-V-V
It said a lot when seeing giant monsters on a rampage in a city had merely one question from the MacBeth crew. And that was if they were anyone they knew. Given at this point they were used to having to face giant things wrecking cities. That and alien invasions was what they dealt with a lot.
Kaworu inwardly wondered how much yet another threat that had nothing to do with the Angels would annoy "Supreme Commander" Ikari. True it was annoying that his Brothers had so much more to deal with, but still amused him to think about the smug lillium having his plans messed with by forces he had no idea were at play.
It took them a moment to remember there was something unique about the place being attacked by giant invaders of some kind.
"Isn't that where that one kid that asked us if we knew about the monsters that took his dad five years ago lives?" Amuro asked as he recalled why he had heard of that city before.
"And had that device we had no idea what it was," Sanger nodded.
The device appeared to be one solid object with no seams. No one was sure what exactly it could do or how it was possible to make it. It was taken as proof that something really weird happened that day to Daiya Tsuwabuki. Just that they weren't sure if was exactly as he said or if there was even more going on than he was aware of.
"If it is that probably is them then," Hayato shrugged. "Be kind of embarrassing if it wasn't."
"So we'll beat out of those things if they know where his father is then," Ryoma commented.
"So let's slay some dragons and save some fathers," Excellen called out with a smile.
"So Tuesday for you guys right?" Isamu remarked.
"Pretty much," Jamie admitted. "At least I don't think Coop unleashed those."
"Then we don't have time to waste," Sanger called out.
V-V-V
People could say many things about Daiya Tsuwabuki. He was known as the "Monster Boy" and thought to be making up giant monsters for the loss of his father. Though some also given the sheer amount of alien invaders and mad scientists making giant monsters believed him but thought his father still was dead now given how lacking in mercy any of those were.
For Londo Bell they got to see Daiya throw a spear right into the eye of a turtleoid giant monster. Needless to say that impressed some of them a great deal.
"If he doesn't get a giant robot soon he's got a Rezel waiting for him," Sanger remarked as he tried to hurt one of the other giant monster rampaging through the city.
"So people get giant robo…." Harry said as a giant mech rose out of the ocean. The head of it detached and ate Daiya.
"Usually not quite that literal," Amuro admitted when the giant ship launched two massive objects that turned into parts to merge with the golden head to form a giant robot.
The turtleoid then got the claws of Isamu's red lion to the face. It responded by trying to use the organic looking tentacles it had to try to grab it.
"Go Gol-Lion!" Akira called out and the turtleoid tried grabbing them while they were combining.
It then let out a horrifying scream of pain as the electrical energy surrounding the Go-Lions made that one of the worst possible things it could have tried doing. That also gave Daiya a moment to get digest what just happened to him.
"Wow...Londo Bell is here," he said in amazement. "With them finding dad and kicking the butt whoever has him will be no problem!"
He had no idea the girl he had seen that day he was saved was certain it won't be that easy. Darius was not going to that easy to defeat.
"Use the Despair Sight," Lulu (not that Daiya knew her name yet) told him.
Daiya slammed a button and fired off the mech's eyebeams. It carved up the cyclops looking mech in front of him like nothing.
"Cool...where's the fist shooting attack?" Daiya asked.
"That would be Giga Punch Grinder but…" Lulu said but Daiya fired it.
And found the punch didn't come back to him. Though it did make a big hole in the turtleoid mecha. Then the wound sealed itself up.
"But it always comes back for everyone else," Daiya grumbled.
Lulu got to see Mazinger Z, Great Mazinger, Mazinkaiser SKL, Iron Z, Go-Lion, Megas, and the Grungusts all shooting their fists and other than Megas they all came back. She thought it her imagination she heard the cry of "Rocket Punch!"
"I...see…" Lulu remarked as she saw what he meant in the distance.
Daiya then stumbled and fell over. He really had no idea how to drive his mech nor even what the name of it was. He kind of needed an instruction manual.
"Man those guys make it look easy," Daiya muttered.
A glove that appeared on Daiya's hand.
"The power glove will allow you to control Gaiking with your movements," Lulu told him.
They missed the remarks of Mio Sasuga. Probably a good thing given it was a reference to an old movie and no one understood what she was talking about. Nor really wanted to they were honest about it.
"Next time try listening before you fire off things," Puria Richardson commented as the Stinger dropped off a new fist for Gaiking.
Puria then nearly gasped seeing white and red robot with a massive drill arm fly at one of the Darius mecha at high speeds and shred anything it hit with that drill arm. It made her wonder if their mission would be hard for these people to believe or not.
"So what do I need to do?" Daiya asked.
"We have a weapon that should stop its regeneration," Lulu informed Daiya. "The Bolt Paralizer. You also need to impale it on the horns."
"Got it!" Daiya yelled.
The turtleoid monster was too busy fighting Londo Bell to pay attention to Daiya and Gaiking. Zamzeed let the monster have it with her familiars. The three balls of light were too fast for it's tentacles to hit.
Lulu then blinked as a massive ball of light slapped the Darius mech with a paper fan. The surface world was getting weirder and weirder to her by the moment.
"Maybe they can be of help fighting Darius," Lulu muttered as a massive sword blinded the Darius turtleoid mech until it could regenerate its eyes.
Go-Lion let the turtleoid monster have it with missiles fired from the Blue and Yellow lions. This knocked the monster back.
Daiya charged and then shoved Gaiking's horns into the monster and let it have the voltage with the Bolt Paralizer. Great Mazinger also gave him a hand by hitting the monster with a Thunder Break.
"So what is the strongest attack?" Daiya asked as he pulled the out the horns from the rampaging threat. He also was kind of surprised the Thunder Break didn't hurt his mech.
"That would be the Hydro Blazer," Lulu told him.
Daiya pushed the button and yelled "Hydro Blazer!"
The attack completely destroyed the monster as fire came out of eyes and mouth of the chest head. The bits and pieces left of the turtleoid turned to smoke.
"I did it!" Daiya called and then he and Gaiking shook as Coop german suplexed another of the cyclopean monsters.
"Don't pat your back just yet," Puria remarked. She pondered telling him he was the third guy to drive Gaiking, but figured to wait until later. She'd have to see if this one actually would last and not break somehow.
"Ok," Daiya called out as he controlled the Gaiking like it and he were one.
Puria found it weird how several of the mecha easily were able to be out of the way of her attacks and support her even without talking to her. It kind of creeped her out actually.
Harry beheaded one of the cyclopean mechs with his mega beam saber. He also was half surprised not to see a message on his screen to yell chesto. He figured Coop and Lowe would put something like that in and that Major Zonvolt would find it amusing.
Venus A then blew the head off one of mechs trying to sneak up on Harry with the finger missiles.
"Don't let your guard down," Jun remarked to Harry.
"Go it," Harry said before using the mega beam launcher to give Mio some cover fire.
"Give me the xp," Mio laughed as she attacked the Darius mecha with Zamzeed.
"Yes she's always like that," Mu said to Harry's unasked question. "We just don't ask and think everyone from La Gias is kind of strange."
Harry had to admit they were a very unique bunch as he heard stories of various other people from there. Masaki and Mio were just the tip of the iceberg as there were many other people from that realm that had visited the surface world.
In the ocean Musashi was happy as Shin Getter 3 was kicking the butt more of those cyclopean mecha. He flung one of them with a judo throw and then unleashed a barrage of missiles at them.
Harry wondered why there was something about Shin Getter he felt was just really unnerving and like it was getting more and more powerful as time went on. Like the mech was actually alive somehow and aware of things.
'I just hope it isn't as completely insane as Ryoma and Hayato,' Harry thought as he blew the head off one of the invading mechs.
A mech with the power of Shin Getter and their morality would be a nightmare to fight and frankly Harry was thinking of that being far worse than Tom Riddle. Riddle even trying to control a Mimetic Beast lacked the power of what was to be the ultimate Getter.
Harry wondered if even now it was more Shin Getter let the Getter team pilot it than they were piloting Shin Getter.
Mazinkaiser SKL under the control of Ryo seemed almost graceful as it unloaded with the guns on the invading mecha. Like it was some strange ballet it was doing instead of turning mechs into scrap metal.
Kyosuke drove a revolver stake into the eye of one of the cyclopean mecha. He then obliterated it with his claymore missiles.
Mari enjoyed up close and personal with her variable fighter and cutting up the invading mecha.
Tetsuya gave another one of those turtleoid monsters a Double Thunder Break and Gaiking rammed into horns first before giving it the same thing he did the first one. Then Go-Lion put it's "hands" together and formed a sword. The Ten Kings Sword sliced through the Darius mech like it was made out of hot butter.
Daiya had to admit that looked really cool. He hoped his giant robot also had something like that it could do.
Lulu wasn't sure what to make of Go-Lion besides the mighty robot would be feared by the Darius Empire and those like them.
"Darkness slash!" Irm called out as he sliced up one of the cyclopean mecha.
"Cross Smasher!" Lune Zoldark yelled and destroyed another of the Darius mecha in one shot.
Lulu blinked as it looked like a giant girl wearing armor.
The Diana A drove the Exceed Spear through the sole eye of yet another cyclopean mech. With the mech blinded the Aphrodite A finished it off with the Megaton Hammer. The pair of flails attached to the chest was yet another weapon that made people wonder a bit about who designed the Mazinger Angels weapons.
Sayla was really glad no one asked them to design gundams as she shivered wondering what sort of insane things they'd do or think having strapped onto the chest like breasts would be a good idea.
She was sure anyone attempting to do that could get her brother and Amuro to team up and teach them the hard way about good mobile suit design. Perhaps also get Kamile, Coop and Lowe to help in that endeavor.
Then a giant metal octopus flew through the air at the Daiku Maryu. A soon glowing red octopus as it heated up. Coop blasted it with the freeze ray on Megas and metal of the octopus started go through extremes of temperature.
Even so that didn't weaken the metal enough for the Stinger's lasers to penetrate the hide of the octopus.
Kaworu attacked the octopus with his Evangelion's dual chainsaw. Sparks flew but whatever the Darius mech was made out of was some really stern stuff.
Out at sea the captain of the Darius Empire attack sub wondered if he needed a bigger boat with more weapons as the surface world had plenty of mecha along with Gaiking and the Daiku Maryu. True he had a lot of missiles but he wasn't sure if it'd be enough to deal with everyone.
He had idea how undergunned he was to deal with Megas let alone the Londo Bell force on hand in the city.
Things got worse for the surfaced attack sub as the Novis Nova had been in the area and launched the Brain Powerds at it.
"How many different kinds of mecha does the surface world have?" the skipper of that sub grumbled as the ones coming at them looked completely different from any others he'd seen today.
"Be careful," Nanga Silverly called out. "We don't know who they are or what they can do."
"Other than they don't like us and the new guys," Lasse noted.
Inwardly Yuu wondered exactly how many threats to the Earth there were as it seemed you couldn't throw a rock without hitting one. It was hard to keep others focused on the threat Orphan had when dozens more were around. He doubted some of them were as assuredly fatal as what Orphan leaving the Earth would be, but he didn't like his voice and opinion on Orphan might get lost in the crowd and events that could happen.
"Be careful Hime," Yuu stated.
"I always try to," Hime replied.
The four Brain Powerd pilots really hoped no one snarked about the placement the cockpits again. It just wasn't very funny.
Hime then felt Hime Brain tense up.
"What is it," she muttered before the attack sub launched missiles into the air.
"Missiles," Yuu called out. "We have to stop them before they hit anything!"
The Brain Powerds blurred as they teleported around to strike the missiles. The crew of the Darius attack sub was completely shocked at this. The surface world was getting more and more insane by the minute for them.
"More guests," Excellen Browning remarked seeing the missiles destroyed. "Weissy and I need to give them a warm welcome."
"Go ahead,' Sanger ordered as drove his sword through one of the tentacles wrapped around the Daiku Maryu.
Kaworu wasn't sure exactly how that insane lillium kept being able to do things like that, but he made note to be careful when he showed his true colors to Londo Bell. After all Tarbis wished to avoid having someone yelling chesto be the last thing he heard.
Ken lifted the blade of Mazinkaiser SKL to the sky and lightning struck it. He grinned savagely and drove glowing sword into the metal octopus.
Harry attacked the octopus with his mega beam saber and while he didn't cut through the limbs he was able to put deep gashes in them.
"Man that's a one tough mech," Harry muttered.
"Rust Hurricane!" Koji yelled and Mazinger Z let the octopus have it. Yet even with that getting into the wounds made to it the octopus kept a death grip on the Daiku Maryu.
Daiya grabbed onto the explosive filled monster and pulled. Even missing a limb it didn't want to let go.
"Need more thrust," Daiya muttered and an idea came to him on how to get it.
"Giga Punch Grinder!" he yelled and launched both arms and used the extra thrust to pray the metal octopus off. He used shoulder harpoons to get the hands back.
Gaiking then flung the octopus at the Darius attack sub. There was a massive explosion as the octopus hit the sub.
On the bridge of the Daiku Maryu the masked captain of the ship took all this in. Garis was sure that things were going to be very different than he was expecting. Perhaps the surface world would have protectors able to deal with the Darius Empire on this end while they took the fight to the enemy.
"Interesting," Garis mused.
Though he also wondered what threats existed to the surface world that would require all this. Fishermen weren't exactly the most up to date on mech production and what new ones were being tested after all.
So Garis knew of the Dinosaur Empire, some giant organic ship in the depths of one of the oceans, and various human factions but there seemed to be a lot more than that. Perhaps other forces rose in the years since the last time he got such information.
Something Garis then got to see firsthand as another force showed up to fight Londo Bell. The Death army had come to town and it seemed were interested in what had been going on.
"You!" Mari yelled as she saw it was more of the same forces that wrecked her Evangelion. "Finally time for a rematch!"
Mari barely avoided being shot by several four legged Death Army mecha as she charged at them. Still she got to slice up the mecha and it felt so good to her. Her feral smile as she did that would scare anyone sane.
"Die!" Mari cackled as she tore into a group of Death Army mecha.
"NERV really has no recruitment standards," Excellen noted.
Harry recalled that these mecha were driven by the high tech version of inferni as he hacked them up. It made him muse if even the Junk Guild would find them to be utter abominations.
"What the…" Daiya said as the mobile suits attacked him with what looked like spiked guns.
"Not sure who those are but they aren't friendly," Puria commented as she was blasting the green mecha with the Stinger's lasers. "So get to it!"
Daiya nodded and threw himself into the fight at that. Given his mech was much bigger than the mobile suits he was able to smash them easily.
"Chesto!" Sanger called out as he sliced through a swarm of Death Army mobile suits.
"Nothing like crushing zombies in mechs is there?" Ryoma snorted as he tried to destroy more Death Army mecha than Sanger with the getter tomahawks.
"Any idea what they came here for?" Amuro asked as destroyed the abominations like they were standing still. "Or who made things for that matter."
"Someone who likes zombie movies a bit too much?" Coop half joked as he used a massive chainsaw on the Death Army mechs.
Kaworu threw himself into the fight eagerly as these things felt completely and utterly foul and tainted to him in ways that made his blood boil. GD cells had that effect on him.
"Die!" Kaworu growled the dual chainsaw his Evangelion had worked extremely well on the Death Army.
"They feel wrong to Yuu Brain," Yuu remarked as he blasted several Death Army mecha. "Like they shouldn't exist!"
"Hime Brain feels the same way," Hime agreed.
"I think all our Brain Powerds agree on that," Lassie noted as he blasted a flying Death Army unit in the face.
"And the history books didn't cover anything like this?" Jamie asked Kiva. "Because I'm sure zombie driven mechs would be remembered."
"I really didn't pay attention and there is a long part of history that was missing," Kiva replied as she was trying to figure out what they were fighting exactly.
"That kind of scares me," Jamie muttered. "Even more things usually do."
In the distance Master Gundam watched. Master Asia chuckled softly seeing what the one in the red Rezel was doing. He wanted to see what the foe of that pathetic spirit was like in combat and this and whatever else had shown up definitely allowed him to get a good grasp on Harry Potter.
'I look forward to seeing that spirit get defeated again,' Master Asia thought to himself with a bemused expression.
While both Master Asia and Lord Voldemort were men who had picked new names for themselves, and definitely cut themselves off from the past Master Asia considered that ghost a complete joke.
Also Master Asia was trying to grasp what unique weapons and parts of their appearance the mecha of Londo Bell had for use in Death Army units to pretend to be them. Those units would cause fear and sow distrust for him. Master Asia and Devil Gundam weren't above using such tactics to win.
Then Shin Getter One struck a Death Army mech with a getter beam and things went a crazy. It was far more powerful than the Getter that had fought the Death Army before and the getter beam attack far more powerful.
Master Asia winced as the Getter team was sure to be a pain to deal with and the much stronger getter rays caused the GD cells to shatter like cheap glass hit by a semi. The same thing had happened on a smaller scale the last time, but this was far worse and much faster.
A counter for getter rays would need to be created, but that would take time and perhaps some fools to use as pawns as well. There wasn't exactly a lack of those around the Solar System that could be put to use for Devil Gundam's goals.
'This changes nothing really,' Master Asia mused to himself as he withdrew Master Gundam from the battlefield.
V-V-V
Gilliam Yeager considered his work never complete done really. He wondered what had made this Earth so desired by so many menaces.
Of course he also wondered if Tom Riddle was going to realize he was no longer the big fish in a small pond and instead a small fish in a massive pound. But that dark lord was not an issue this time.
Gilliam made his way to the Tsuwabuki household and knocked on the front door.
He saw Daiya's best friend and the new mech pilot's mother as the door opened. They clearly were disappointed to not see Daiya.
"I must ask one question," Gilliam remarked. "You both did understand our answer to Daiya before today was that we didn't know of whoever took his father. That we know of was the keywords in that. Now we hope that metal dragon he mentioned can at least answer who they are and what this is about."
Mrs. Tsuwabuki wasn't sure how to take that from one of the former Aggressors. Teachers and more were getting tired of Daiya talking about the metal dragon and monsters at sea. It seemed for Londo Bell they just hadn't met them and didn't know who they were.
"Also your son managed to get the respect of Sanger," Gilliam commented amused.
"Really?" Daiya asked behind Gilliam.
"Really," Gilliam replied. "However I think what you have to say and what I have to say require everyone to be sitting down."
Mrs. Tsuwabuki had a feeling this conversation was not going to be one she was going to like in the slightest.
She was right and she wished what her son said on Gaiking, and such was him just trying to cope with loss. A mech pilot being in the room and treating this like it was pretty normal for him worried her.
"What kind of parent would I be if I wanted you to pilot that Gaiking?" she asked.
"One I've seen a lot of," Gilliam remarked. "To discard their children or even worse to want to use them as tools. Though at least you aren't rejecting him like Amuro Ray was by his parents."
That hung in the air and caused a great deal of silence. It made it clear exactly how bad parents took their kids driving mecha. If they didn't force them to drive the mecha in the first place.
"That happening so often is why the rank of volunteer ensign was created for Londo Bell," Gilliam noted. "While the intent has not always been followed it was so teen pilots and such can be around their peers and keep their educational options open."
Akane Tsuwabuki was surprised to hear that. Not that it really made her want to see her son risk his life for a quest that might get him killed. Or worse find out that who wanted to save was already dead. Admittedly not from where everyone thought he died but still.
"We really don't want to anyone to end up like Seaguy," Gilliam noted.
"Seaguy?" Daiya asked.
"An associate of mine who was raised to be a soldier and it has left him really unable to deal with normal people," Gilliam admitted. He was sure that Mithral agent was going to stuck with Whispered that didn't understand what a real gun was. Or would figure out how dangerous Sousuke was before he had to deal with a force with giant robots.
"I don't care what anyone says," Daiya called out. "I will get my dad back!"
Gilliam smiled sadly. He wished Daiya luck on that.
He just hoped Daiya was not going to become a psychological nutcase by the time this was over. Or worse like Ryoma Nagare or Hayato Jin.
To Gilliam any of that was not as bad as Daiya ended up like he was before entering this dimension. Back under that old identity and the things he did. The things he still tried repent for in his own ways.
Akane looked like she was proud and extremely worried at the same time. She just hoped this won't be the death of her.
It wasn't exactly what Daiya had hoped for but he would take that. His father needed him, and he was going to save him! He also felt on top of the world.
Gilliam inwardly sighed as he got a call. It seemed things were going insane somewhere else now. He didn't even need his...curse and ability… to know Londo Bell was going to be called in to deal with that.
V-V-V
Seabook Arno felt like a rug had been pulled out from under him and that a chill had set into his limbs. He couldn't even blame adults as he doubted they had anything to do with the space monsters trying to wreck his home. At least he hoped that they didn't.
The Jegans and other mass produced mecha struggled to deal with the alien invaders. The ugly and nasty creatures were known to the Terran Republic forces, and it seemed were not related to the Mimetic Beasts. Or the Dinosaur Empire. Or Doctor Hell.
Basically all the usual suspects had nothing to do with it so far. That anyone was aware of anyway.
Though at the moment Seabook and his friends were trying to find a place to hide things were getting even uglier. Seabook had no idea how much weirder his life was soon going to be, and he'd find himself following a path similar to Amuro Ray.
An armored figure watched the carnage with amusement. He then knew things were about to get less boring.
It was hard to tell any expression on Tekkaman Dagger given his faceplate was in a word ruined. Circuits and more were exposed in the gash that covered his face.
"Took you long enough to come out Blade," Dagger growled.
Blade didn't bother with a quip and sliced a one of the Radam forces in half with his melee weapon.
"So going to be silent then Blade?" Dagger chuckled. "We'll see how long that lasts."
The pair clashed as Blade could feel that time wasn't on his side. Far too soon and if he didn't turn back he'd be nothing but a savage beast out to wreck everything. This compounded by the fact if he turned back they'd easily be able to kill him.
Blade then got bit into by one of the Radam shock troops and the fangs went in deep. Dagger then struck Blade repeatedly.
When Dagger was about to give the final blow the O'Neill Colony then violently shook.
Londo Bell had arrived and the Radam attacked.
The inhuman monsters got introduced to a wide variety of energy weapons.
"They aren't so tough," Ryoma remarked with his usual insane smile.
Harry then fired on Dagger along with everyone else.
Dagger dodged attacks by the various mecha with ease. Until he tried his luck with a newtype and Sayla nailed him head on. Dagger was stunned by that and realized even as enhanced he was to try to avoid fighting people with superior spacial awareness.
Kaworu groaned. Alien infested lillium were going to be very annoying for him.
"The things I put up with," he muttered.
Dagger then figured this was the best time to leave as he saw Megas sprout an insane amount of weapons.
"Hey did that armored guy on the ground turn into a guy?" Harry asked as Tekkaman Blade turned back to him while blacked out.
"We'll figure out who he is later," Mu commented.
Chapter notes
Kaworu Nagisa is from Neon Genesis Evangelion and is the Angel of Free Will Tabris. He intends to kill everyone when the time comes.
Sanger Zonvolt is from Super Robot Wars OG and is a pure badass.
Daiya Tsuwabuki is from Gaiking the Legend of Daiku Maryu. He wants to save his father from whatever took him.
Hayato Jin is from Getter Robo and is an insane psychopath.
Ryoma Nagare is from Getter Robo and is an insane psychopath.
Excellen Browning is from Super Robot Wars OG and is a skilled sniper.
Isamu Kurogane is from Go-Lion and is called Lance in Voltron.
Amuro Ray is from the original Gundam series and is a badass.
Akira Kogane is from Go-Lion as is known as Keith in Voltron.
Lulu is from Gaiking the Legend of Daiku Maryu. Garis is her father, but she isn't aware of that yet.
Mio Sasuga is from Super Robot Wars OG and can break the 4th wall if she wants to.
Puria Richardson is from Gaiking the Legend of Daiku Maryu. She is the tomboy pilot of the Stinger.
Coop is from Megas XLR and is chaos given form. Avoid fighting if you can.
Jun Huno is from Great Mazinger. She is not someone to take lightly.
Musashi Tomoe is from Getter Robo. He's insanely brave and not just insane.
Ryo Magami is from Mazinkaiser SKL and he is the ranged attack pilot of Mazinkaiser SKL.
Kyosuke Nanbu is from Super Robot Wars OG. He always takes the long odds.
Mari Illustrious Makinami is from Rebuild of Neon Genesis Evangelion. She appears nice but is really Ryoma Nagare with a candy shell.
Tetsuya Tsurugi is from Great Mazinger. He's an expert pilot, but also has a giant ego. Though unlike Asuka he has people willing to tell him to cut his egofest.
Irmgult "Irm" Kazahara is from Super Robot Wars OG. He's a letch and avoids hitting on girls that are crying on the inside or outside.
Lune Zoldark is from Super Robot Wars OG and the daughter of a man way into super robot wars anime. Hence why her mech looks like a giant girl in armor.
Sayla Mass is from the original Gundam series and is the sister of Char. She's a newtype and an ace pilot in her own right.
Nanga Silverly is from Brain Powerd and is the pilot of a biological mech.
Lassie Lundberg is from Brain Powerd and is pilot of a biological mech.
Yuu Isami is from Brain Powerd. His family is a disaster zone and he's likely the most stable of them. Which isn't that hard.
Hime Utsumiya is from Brain Powerd. She is the main heroine and is a woman with a big heart.
Ken Kaido is from Mazinkaiser SKL. He enjoys using bladed weapons on his foes.
Koji Kabuto is from Mazinger Z and pretty much the original super robot pilot.
Garis is from Gaiking the Legend of Daiku Maryu and is captain of Daiku Maryu. He covers up his entire body.
Kiva is from Megas XLR. She tried to send Megas back to a battle it could stop the Glorft. Things have not gone right for her since then.
Jamie is from Megas XLR. He is Coop's friend and a coward.
Master Asia is from G Gundam and an incredibly skilled martial artist.
Gilliam Yeager is from Super Robot Wars OG and is a dimension hopper. He is trying to make up for sins in his past.
Akane Tsuwabuki is from Gaiking the Legend of Daiku Maryu. She is Daiya's mother and she was never given a first name in the show.
Seabook Arno is from Gundam F91. He's the hero.
Tekkaman Dagger is from Tekkaman Blade and used to be close to Blade before he got taken over by aliens.
Tekkaman Blade is from Tekkaman Blade and isn't possessed by aliens, but has a time limit before he becomes a complete berserker.